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1 Int | two years spent there had great influence upon his later
2 Int | the court of Frederick the Great, with whom he ultimately
3 I | so truly Jewish, that a great many Jews use the baptism
4 I | fire.' Likewise Paul, the great apostle of the Gentiles,
5 II | rfplies the Quaker, "to our great happiness." Then opening
6 III | It was at the time when Great Britain was torn to pieces
7 III | which an officer gave him a great box of the ear, and cried
8 III | oaths. Oliver, having as great a contempt for a sect which
9 III | lust and vanity, surely great will be thy condemnation.~"
10 IV | he held forth, and made a great number of converts.~The
11 IV | George Fox, hearing of his great reputation, came to London (
12 IV | Palatine, aunt to George I. of Great Britain, a lady conspicuous
13 IV | America. In a little time a great number of these savages (
14 IV | obscure sectary, but as a very great man. The king's politics
15 IV | Pennsylvania he left it, but with great reluctance, in order to
16 V | English clergy have retained a great number of the Romish ceremonies,
17 V | Christian patience to a very great trial, viz., that they shall
18 V | divino; it is consequently a great mortification to them to
19 VI | the severity is twice as great as that of the Romish Church.
20 VI | the two prevailing ones in Great Britain, yet all others
21 VI | goes and is baptized in a great tub, in the name of the
22 VII | This book won the doctor a great number of partisans, and
23 VII | which are now spread over a great part of Europe, that Mahomet,
24 VIII | evil; where the nobles are great without insolence, though
25 VIII | have been involved in as great calamities, and have shed
26 VIII | the last bereaving that great monarch of his life. Weigh,
27 IX | pretended masters. This great Charter, which is considered
28 IX | that happy usurper and great politician, who pretended
29 IX | income of the estates of a great many commoners in England
30 X | Earl of Oxford governed Great Britain, his younger brother
31 XI | inhabitants of it are in as great trouble and perplexity as
32 XI | lost an eye, a third had a great nose at her recovery, and
33 XI | will not fail to compile a great many folios on this subject,
34 XI | genius, and endued with as great a strength of mind, as any
35 XI | opportunity of improving the great talents she received from
36 XI | children to be inoculated. A great part of the kingdom followed
37 XII | thousand years, is the truly great man. And those politicians
38 XII | Keeper, and himself was a great many years Lord Chancellor
39 XII | study as to make himself a great philosopher, a good historian,
40 XII | them."~You know that this great man was accused of a crime
41 XII | that matter): "He was so great a man," replied his lordship, "
42 XII | far otherwise; all these great changes happened in the
43 XIII | in the mathematics. This great man could never subject
44 XIII | Before his time, several great philosophers had declared,
45 XIII | world are imperfect, and the great abuse that is made of words
46 XIV | Tis not for us to end such great disputes."~This famous Newton,
47 XIV | confessed that these two great men differed very much in
48 XIV | of philosophy, whilst the great Galileo, fourscore years
49 XIV | in the lives of these two great men is, that Sir Isaac,
50 XIV | notwithstanding this, these great men are the subject of everyone'
51 XIV | that Descartes was not a great geometrician. Those who
52 XIV | will not be making him too great a compliment if we affirm
53 XIV | good money, he however did great service in crying down that
54 XIV | of truth, was perhaps as great a genius as he who afterwards
55 XV | vortex which floats in the great one, and which turns daily
56 XV | have destroyed all these great and little vortices, both
57 XV | resistance.~With regard to the great vortices, they are still
58 XV | these fires (unknown for so great a series of years), which
59 XV | the forerunners of some great calamity which was to befall
60 XV | This is attraction, the great spring by which all Nature
61 XV | should have imputed to this great philosopher the verbal and
62 XVI | than twenty-five years. How great would have been his astonishment
63 XVII | there are lines infinitely great which form an angle infinitely
64 XVII | that these have related a great number of fictitious particulars,
65 XVII | historian would commit a great error should he allow three
66 XVII | therefore, allowed too great a number of years, and consequently
67 XVII | doubly deceived, made their great year of the world, that
68 XVII | gentlemen would think it too great a condescension to allow
69 XVII | same time that some very great philosophers attacked Sir
70 XVIII| reflection, which is, that the great merit of this dramatic poet
71 XVIII| always been exhibited with great success. Time, which alone
72 XVIII| some of the beauties of great geniuses, are of infinitely
73 XVIII| have been made on those two great poets.~I have ventured to
74 XVIII| thought: And enterprises of great weight and moment With this
75 XVIII| conspicuous in every part; but his great fault is his having endeavoured
76 XVIII| of Corneille, for Cato is great without anything like fustian,
77 XVIII| pieces hat were written with great regularity, but which, at
78 XVIII| spreads nequally, but with great vigour. It dies if you attempt
79 XIX | author was had in pretty great contempt in Mr. de Muralt'
80 XIX | lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian
81 XIX | Buononcini esteems that great artist, and does justice
82 XX | lawyers, our physicians, and a great number of the clergy, are
83 XXI | him the man of genius, the great poet. Among other pieces
84 XXI | the productions of such great geniuses as have exercised
85 XXI | into the world after those great geniuses who spread such
86 XXI | time when the taste of that great poet was not yet formed.
87 XXI | died was remarkable for a great storm. His poem begins in
88 XXI | must resign! heaven his great soul does claim In storms
89 XXI | approaching fate of his great ruler told."~Waller.~It
90 XXI | reputation they obtained of very great poets and illustrious writers,
91 XXI | led in all things by the great; and who, nevertheless,
92 XXIII| that as the Parliament of Great Britain have promised a
93 XXIII| nation. The English have so great a veneration for exalted
94 XXIII| the arts in England is the great veneration which is paid
95 XXIII| occasion of their becoming great men.~The English have even
96 XXIII| English had paid her these great funeral honours, purposely
97 XXIII| were the victims to it; a great many pieces were published
98 XXIV | glory of that body to a great height even in its infancy.
99 XXIV | academy would have had a very great advantage over those who
100 XXIV | that his predecessor was a great man, that Cardinal Richelieu
101 XXIV | Cardinal Richelieu was a very great man, that the Chancellor
102 XXIV | Chancellor Seguier was a pretty great man, that Louis XIV. was
103 XXIV | Louis XIV. was a more than great man, the director answers
104 XXIV | elect may also be a sort of great man, and that himself, in
105 XXIV | should seem to chew with great eagerness, and make as though
106 XXIV | by being placed at too great a distance, cannot afford
107 XXIV | the French Academy, how great a service would they do